A vibrantly illustrated biography about visionary artist Christo,
encouraging creativity, perseverance, and appreciating the beauty
all around usChristo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) are
renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that
wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin's
Wrapped Reichstag, Paris's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and concluding
with New York City's The Gates in Central Park (2005). This lively
biography chronicles Christo's humble childhood in
Soviet-controlled Bulgaria-under a regime that suppressed
individuality and creativity-to his international fame as a bold
(and controversial) innovator in the art world. Christo discovered
an early love of art and found a way to make a living out of his
passion by wrapping bottles, cans, stacks of magazines, and even an
air conditioner. When he met his wife, Jeanne-Claude, they moved to
New York City as undocumented immigrants and became equal partners
in both life and work-he, the artist, and she, the dealmaker.
Together, Christo and Jeanne-Claude made elaborate, visually
stunning installations that transformed public spaces around the
world, all free to the public. Christo never explained why he felt
compelled to wrap things in fabric-rather, his work celebrated
individual interpretation and the simple joy of seeing something
familiar in a new way. And though each work was temporary, their
awe-inspiring designs, uniting nature with the manmade, stayed with
viewers long afterward. Covered in Color inspires readers to
appreciate the beauty around us, however fleeting, and to push the
boundaries of "possible."
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